Boston won?t yield to USOC pressure on Olympics, Walsh says

Mayor Martin Walsh said Monday he will not sign a host city contract until he knows more about the financial picture of the 2024 Olympic games.

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Mayor Walsh is willing to let the USOC take the Games away from Boston if the city is not given enough time to properly vet the bid.

Boston MA 7/26/15 Boston Red Sox David Ortiz rounds first base after hitting his second 3 run home run of the game as Detroit Tigers pitcher Kyle Ryan watches during seventh inning action at Fenway Park on Sunday July 26, 2015. (Matthew J. Lee/Globe staff) Topic: 27sox Reporter:

Alex Speier

Will David Ortiz join Pedro in Hall of Fame?

Ortiz continues to show the sort of offensive skill that will make him very much part of the Hall of Fame discussion when he retires.

BOSTON, MA - JULY 26: The Boston Red Sox celebrate a 11-1 victory against the Detroit Tigers at Fenway Park on July 26, 2015 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Rich Gagnon/Getty Images)

Peter Abraham | Beat Writer?s Notebook

What is each Red Sox player?s trade value?

From best chips to untouchables, Peter Abraham assesses Boston?s roster ahead of Friday?s trade deadline.

?I Am Cait? documents the day-to-day unreal reality of Caitlyn Jenner, fresh from her public debut as herself.

TV Review

?I Am Cait? a compelling slice of TV

The show, which premiered Sunday, documents the day-to-day unreal reality of Caitlyn Jenner, fresh from her public debut as herself.

For jazz singer, a long road back after stroke

Giglio was just 42 when a stroke left her partially paralyzed and unable to sing. A new program at Mass. General aims to help victims like her and even younger.

The copy of Hermann Goering?s radio message to Hitler in April 1945, warning he might take control of Germany, will be on view at the Natick museum beginning Tuesday.

Natick museum acquires message to Adolf Hitler

A transcription of a radio message that Hermann Goering sent to Hitler days before his suicide will go on display Tuesday at the Museum of World War II.

David Minehan performed with Scuffy the Cat at  T.T. the Bear?s Place Saturday.

Music Review

T.T. the Bear?s finale a suitably Scruffy occasion

There was never a question that owner Bonney Bouley wanted Scruffy the Cat to be the last band standing on stage at her club.

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Among the new procedures, the league will introduce random football pressure-checking at halftime and after the game.

Whitney Houston (left) and her daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, at an event in Beverly Hills, Calif., in 2011.

Bobbi Kristina Brown, daughter of Whitney Houston, dies at 22

Brown, the progeny of pop superstars, died about 6 months after she was found face-down and unresponsive in a bathtub.

Compensation for prep school leaders in New England has quietly surged in recent years. Pictured: Phillips Academy in Andover.

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Pay surges for local prep school leaders

The median pay for leaders of elite New England prep schools was $450,000 in 2012, with one earning as much as $1.3 million.

Evan Horowitz | Quick Study

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/07/06/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/horowitz.png Education can?t fix inequality

Modern inequality isn?t driven by the gap between college-educated workers and high school grads.

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Bulger attorneys appeal for new trial

A lawyer for James ?Whitey? Bulger argued that a judge wrongly barred the use of an immunity defense.

The apartment building that Randall E. Lints lived in with his son, seven-year old Jack Loiselle in the Gilbertville section of Hardwick, Massachusetts on July 23, 2015. Jack's father Randall E. Lints of Hardwick, Massachusetts was charged on Wednesday with assault and battery on a child with substantial injury, permitting substantial injury to a child, reckless endangerment of a child and permitting injury to a child after allegedly abusing Jack who was hospitalized on Tuesday night with life-threatening injuries . Matthew Healey for The Boston Globe (METRO Section. Reporter Astead Herndon - Assigning editor Jim Wilson)

Mother of Hardwick boy describes father?s alleged neglect

Amber Loiselle, whose 7-year-old son has been hospitalized since July 14, said she had filed complaints to police that went unanswered.

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New York magazine cover features 35 Bill Cosby accusers

The magazine?s new cover refers to Cosby?s accusers as ?An Unwelcome Sisterhood? and was shot by photographer Amanda Demme.

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Hundreds streamed into a funeral home in the city Sunday to mourn Thomas Sullivan.

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It?s six months until the Iowa caucuses and the Democratic field still has one big asterisk: the 72-year-old sitting vice president.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/07/18/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/150717_WALKER_endoflife_2917x-001.jpg New guidelines may prompt talks about end-of-life care

Advocates are hopeful that a proposed Medicare rule will make end-of-life decision-making a routine part of medical care.

Heat and humidity coming this week

The temperatures will steadily climb this week, reaching as high as the mid-90s by Wednesday.

Ground Game

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Globe reporter James Pindell brings you the latest news from New Hampshire and beyond as 2016 presidential politics take shape.

Opinion

Renée Graham

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Politicians must quickly realize that waving a scrapbook of good deeds done is not enough.

The Big Picture

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Big Picture

Flying over surf and sands on Cape Cod

Photographer David Ryan provides a visual respite of the shoreline during an assignment in a fixed-wing Cessna.

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BetaBoston

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Fox Sports is leading a $300 million investment that will help the Boston fantasy sports startup battle its larger competitor.

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JOHN L. ALLEN JR. | ALL THINGS CATHOLIC

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/07/26/BostonGlobe.com/Foreign/Images/allen.jpg Religious persecution, by both oppressors and the oppressed

India showcases the maddening complexity of religious persecution.

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